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On a desolate mountain top in California lives the world’s oldest organism – a gnarled and twisted bristlecone pine. The scientist who discovered the tree gave it the name Methuselah. It was a seedling when the Egyptian pyramids were being built and a mature tree at the time of Christ. It is now over 4,000 years old. The Curse Of The Methuselah Tree shows how the climate and dramatic events – from volcanoes to nuclear tests – over the last 4000 years have affected Methuselah’s growth rings. Archive footage and stunning computer animation are interspersed with Methuselah’s own narration, supplied by poet Roger McGough. The programme also contemplates the tree’s future and reveals the curse that has followed anyone who has dared to work on the tree – an early death.

But this idea of a “green” oil company producing “clean” fossil fuels is one that I would call a dangerous myth. Such myths obscure the irreconcilability between burning fossil fuels and environmental protection – yet they continue to be perpetuated to the detriment of our planet.

Myth 1: Climate change can be solved with the same thinking that created it

Measures put in place now to address climate change must be sustainable in the long run. A hasty, sticking plaster approach based on quick fixes and repurposed ideas will not suffice. Yet this is precisely what some fossil fuel companies intend to do. To address climate change, major oil and gas companies are mostly doing what they have historically excelled at – more technology, more efficiency, and producing more fossil fuels.

But like the irresponsible gambler that cannot stop doubling down during a losing streak, the industry’s bet on more, more, more only means more ecological destruction. Irrespective of how efficient fossil fuel production becomes, that the industry’s core product can be 100% environmentally sustainable is an illusion.

Myth 2: Climate change won’t spell the end of the fossil fuel industry

According to a recent report, climate change is one factor among several that has resulted in the end of big oil’s golden years – a time when oil was plenty, money quick, and the men at the top celebrated as cowboy capitalists.

Now, to ensure we do not surpass the dangerous 2°C threshold, we must realise that there is simply no place for “producers” of fossil fuels. After all, as scientists, financial experts, and activists have warned, if we want to avoid dangerous climate change, the proven reserves of the world’s biggest fossil fuel companies cannot be consumed.

Big oil companies’ green investments only produce tiny reductions in their overall greenhouse gas emissions. BP calls these effects “real sustainable reductions” – but they accounted for only 0.3% of their total emissions reductions in 2016, 0.1% in 2015, 0.1% in 2014, and so on.

Myth 4: Hard climate regulation is not an option

One of the oil industry’s biggest fears regarding climate change is regulation. It is of such importance that BP recently hinted at big oil’s exodus from the EU if climate regulation took effect. Let’s be clear, we are talking about “command-and-control” regulation here, such as pollution limits, and not business-friendly tools such as carbon pricing or market-based quota systems.

There are many commercial reasons why the fossil fuel industry would prefer the latter over the former. Notably, regulation may result in a direct impact on the bottom line of fossil fuel companies given incurred costs. But climate regulation is – in combination with market-based mechanisms – required to address climate change. This is a widely accepted proposition advocated by mainstream economists, NGOs and most governments.

Myth 5: Without cheap fossil fuels, the developing world will stop

Total’s ex-CEO, the late Christoph de Margerie, once remarked: “Without access to energy, there is no development.” Although this is probably true, that this energy must come from fossil fuels is not. Consider, for example, how for 300 days last year Costa Rica relied entirely on renewable energy for its electricity needs. Even China, the world’s biggest polluter, is simultaneously the biggest investor in domestic renewables projects.

As the World Bank has highlighted, in contrast to big oil’s claims about producing more fossil fuels to end poverty, the sad truth is that by burning even the current fossil fuel stockpile, climate change will place millions of people back into poverty. The UN concurs, signalling that climate change will result in reduced crop yields, more waterborne diseases, higher food prices and greater civil unrest in developing parts of the world.

Myth 6: Big oil must be involved in climate policy-making

Fossil fuel companies insist that their involvement in climate policy-making is necessary, so much so that they have become part of the wallpaper at international environmental conferences. This neglects that fossil fuels are, in fact, a pretty large part of the problem. Big oil attends international environmental conferences for two reasons: lobbying and self-promotion.

If you mess with mother nature, she bites back. As scientists reiterate, natural systems are complex, unpredictable, and even hostile when disrupted. Climate change is a prime example. Small changes in the chemical makeup of the atmosphere may have drastic implications for Earth’s inhabitants.

Fossil fuel companies reject that natural systems are fragile – as evidenced by their expansive operations in ecologically vulnerable areas such as the Arctic. The “wild” aspect of nature is considered something to be controlled and dominated. This myth merely serves as a way to boost egos. As independent scientist James Lovelock wrote, “The idea that humans are yet intelligent enough to serve as stewards of the Earth is among the most hubristic ever.”

February 20, 2018

Whenever a DJ blasts the familiar voice of David Attenborough over the speakers at a U.K. dance club, “the crowd goes wild,” says Louis Jadwat.

“There’s this sense of euphoria really when you hear his kind of dulcet tones over our sort of disco track,” the organizer of the David Attenborough Jungle Boogie raves told As It Happens host Carol Off.

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Attenborough is perhaps the world’s most famous naturalist, best known for his decades of writing for and narrating BBC nature documentaries, including the Planet Earth series.

And now he’s a dance sensation.

Good Life events, co-founded by Jadwat, travels to different U.K. cities to host all-night Attenborough-themed dance parties, which draw crowds of between 600 and 1,000 people.

A crowd of hundreds grooves to David Attenborough’s ‘dulcet tones’ at an all-night rave in Liverpool. (Karl Spencer/Good Life)

They transform clubs into rainforests with artificial vines and trees, and invite local DJs to spin tracks that incorporate clips from the veteran broadcaster.

Events in Leeds and Liverpool sold out, and more are planned for Cambridge, Oxford, Brighton, Southampton and Cardiff.

“It has gone completely viral,” Jadwat said. “It’s amazing to see how much appeal Sir David has to the public.”

‘A timeless figure’

Jadwat and Good Life co-founder Will Burbage came up with the idea when they attended Leeds University, where Attenborough’s documentaries were hugely popular among students.

Not only do they make for “perfect Sunday watching,” Jadwat said, but they also inspire young people to take an interest in nature and environmentalism.

“He has a special appeal despite the fact that obviously he’s been on TV a long time before a lot of these people were watching,” Jadwat said. “He’s kind of a timeless figure.”

David Attenborough is pictured at the launch of nature reserve Woodberry Wetlands on April 30, 2016, in London. Good Life’s Louis Jadwat says the famous naturalist inspires young people to care about environmental issues. (John Phillips/Getty Images)

Good Life is donating some of the event’s proceeds to World Land Trust, a conservation charity of which Attenborough is an outspoken patron.

As It Happens has reached out to the charity for comment.

Attenborough himself has not commented publicly on his newfound fame as a dance club celebrity.

Cancer – it’s not what you think it is.

Like it or not, cancer has become the 2nd leading cause of death in the US. Sources state that, based on 2012-2014 data, about 38.5% (close to two fifths) of Americans will be diagnosed with cancer at some point during their lives. Yet, despite how deadly it has been, we also know that cancer is a relatively recent disease that seemingly didn’t exist (or cause many deaths) 100 years ago. What on earth has happened since then? Why is cancer so widespread? What is cancer exactly? Is there a cancer microbe? Is cancer really terminal? If not, what are the natural solutions?

History of Cancer

Before we embark on the difficult problem of defining cancer, where there are many different and competing theories, let us turn to one thing which is commonly accepted: cancer is essentially a new disease. Yes, it was detected over 2000 years ago, but it was extremely rare. The article Scientists suggest that cancer is purely man-madestates:

“Professor Rosalie David, at the Faculty of Life Sciences, said: “In industrialised societies, cancer is second only to cardiovascular disease as a cause of death. But in ancient times, it was extremely rare. There is nothing in the natural environment that can cause cancer. So it has to be a man-made disease, down to pollution and changes to our diet and lifestyle.”

She added: “The important thing about our study is that it gives a historical perspective to this disease. We can make very clear statements on the cancer rates in societies because we have a full overview. We have looked at millennia, not one hundred years, and have masses of data.”

The data includes the first ever histological diagnosis of cancer in an Egyptian mummy by Professor Michael Zimmerman, a visiting Professor at the KNH Centre, who is based at the Villanova University in the US. He diagnosed rectal cancer in an unnamed mummy, an ‘ordinary’ person who had lived in the Dakhleh Oasis during the Ptolemaic period (200-400 CE).

Professor Zimmerman said: “In an ancient society lacking surgical intervention, evidence of cancer should remain in all cases. The virtual absence of malignancies in mummies must be interpreted as indicating their rarity in antiquity, indicating that cancer causing factors are limited to societies affected by modern industrialization”.”

This naturally leads people to blame things like industrialization, the modern environment and the modern diet as cancer causes, although none of these factors clearly explains why millions of people die every year from a variety of malignancies.

What is Cancer? – The Mainstream Definition

Incredibly for this day and age, we still don’t know exactly what cancer is. Although cancer is commonly defined in terms of DNA damage and cellular mutation, these things are the effect of cancer, not the cause or definition of it. The AMA, the CDC, the American Cancer Society and all the other arms of the Big Pharma-Western Medicine conglomerate will mostly tell you that cancer has an unknown etiology (cause). Sometimes they will point out the obvious, that things like tobacco, alcohol, infectious disease like hepatitis, and nuclear radiation will cause cancer, although many spokesmen for these institutions will still deny that things like glyphosate and EMF radiation are carcinogenic. In fact, some people from these institutions used to promote the very things that caused cancer; remember Camel-smoking Western doctors promoting cigarettes as healthy?

Big Pharma-Western Medicine likes to emphasize that cancer has a genetic component. They also use words like “incurable”, “inoperable”, “hopeless” and “terminal.” Notice how these words induce you to feel helpless, victimized and not responsible for your current state of health. If cancer just happens, you’ve just got bad genes or bad luck, right?

The standard definition of cancer is that it’s a large group of diseases characterized by abnormal cell growth (called a tumor or neoplasm) which becomes so out-of-balance that it grows uncontrollably and spreads to other parts of the body. There are 6 hallmarks of cancer:

Cell growth and division absent the proper signals

Continuous growth and division even given contrary signals

Absence of programmed cell death (apoptosis)

Unlimited and unending cell divisions

Promotion of blood vessel construction (angiogenesis)

Invasion of tissue (metastasis)

We All Have Cancer – All the Time

What is highly interesting about cancer is that we all have it – all the time. Your body makes around 50 million cancer cells every day! To put this into perspective, your body contains 30-37 trillion cells, so 50 million is comparatively small. Yet, this goes to show that cancer in and of itself cannot be the major problem mainstream science makes it out to be, since a strong body and healthy immune system overcomes and transforms it daily. Cancer, like any disease, cannot survive in the presence of a strong immune system. The biological terrain must be weakened or deficient in order for cancer to gain a foothold.

What is Cancer? – Alternative Definitions Including the Cancer Microbe

There are theories that hold that cancer is either a fungus or a bacterium. Some people have cured cancer with the strongly alkaline sodium bicarbonate (baking soda), based on the idea that cancer is a fungus that cannot withstand such alkalinity. The Italian doctor Tullio Simoncini has famously cured many patients with intravenous sodium bicarbonate.

It may not be a case of either/or. There is a certain class of bacteria called mycobacteria which spread like fungus (myco means fungus in Greek). What if cancer were caused by a bacterium that acted like a fungus? There have been a handful of brave scientists, doctors and researchers who have had the courage to go against the medical establishment (when the evidence indicated to), risking their jobs and careers to claim that there may be a cancer microbe, and that cancer may be caused by a bacterium. William Russell (1852-1940) was a pathologist in the School of Medicine at the Royal Infirmary in Edinburgh. In 1890 he gave an address to the Pathological Society of London in which he explained that:

“he had found ‘a characteristic organism of cancer’ that he observed microscopically in fuchsine-stained tissue sections from all forms of cancer that he examined.”

He posited the existence of a parasite later called the Russell body. Dr. Virginia Livingston MD was another medical heretic who did further research to confirm the so-called Russell body. In 1970, she named the cancer organism she had detected as progenitor cryptocides (according to her biography progenitor was a pseudonym for “ancestral”; cryptocides is a Greek and Latin word meaning “hidden killer”). Livingston theorized that progenitor had highly variable growth cycles and the ability to adopt a variety of shapes including spindles, rods and cocci. Livingston inspired Dr. Alan Cantwell, and they both wrote books on the topic of the cancer microbe. In this presentation, Cantwell spells out the characteristics of such a germ:

Intra-cellular and extra-cellular (lives inside and outside the cell)

Cell wall deficient (CWD)

By definition, is therefore also pleomorphic (able to exist in many shapes and forms)

It has a “filterable” virus-like growth stage which can’t be seen in an ordinary light microscope. This suggests a close relationship with viruses and nanobacteria

More on the Mysterious Cancer Microbe

The ICRF (Independent Cancer Research Foundation) led by Webster Kehr is amassing a heap of very important information on the nature of cancer and how to heal it. In this article, Kehr asserts that cancer is most probably the bacterium called Helicobacter Pylori. He claims that the “evidence that H. Pylori causes cancer is very solid” and lists 4 reasons among many:

It is ubiquitous in the stomach and common in the bloodstream (all humans have some cancer cells at all times),

It is known to be a pleomorphic microbe,

The most effective herb at killing H. Pylori, turmeric, is also the same herb that is most effective at treating cancer,

More than one alternative cancer researcher has come to the same conclusion independently.

The 2nd point that Kehr makes – that the cancer microbe is pleomorphic – was not only known by Livingston and Cantwell. Kehr refers to the research of Gaston Naessens, who went further down the rabbit hole and discovered that the cancer microbe has at least 16 distinct shapes and sizes:

Naessens’ research on the cancer microbe. Note: the above chart does not show the proportional sizes or the shapes of the cancer microbe. Image credit: CancerTutor.com

What makes the cancer microbe difficult to detect and eradicate is that it can literally be smaller than a virus or as big as a red blood cell. In the case of the former, it can get inside the cell nucleus and damage the cell DNA. However, according to Kehr, we do know one thing which is very important: the cancer microbe changes its shape and size based on the acidity or alkalinity of the inside of the cell. As the alkalinity increases, the size of the cancer microbe decreases. As the alkalinity decreases (and the acidity increases), the size of the cancer increases. This is not surprising, given the strong relationship between cellular health and alkalinity.

What Causes Cancer?

There are many levels on which to address this question. On one level, you can zero in on specific physical and environmental causes – tobacco, alcohol, infectious disease like hepatitis, glyphosate and heavy metal contamination. On another level, you can look at the role of energetic and non-physical causes such as nuclear radiation, EMF radiation and unresolved and suppressed emotional issues. On yet another level, you can analyze how the immune system was weakened, such that it was no longer able to suppress the development of tumors. On a further level, you can look at the sequence by which a healthy cell gets transformed into a cancerous cell – and it doesn’t just happen magically. It has everything to do with the cell input and output.

Many in the Big Pharma-Western Medicine conglomerate, whether out of ignorance or deliberate concealment, attribute cancer to DNA damage. However, this is confusing effects with causes. Kehr writes:

“Everyone has cancer cells in their body, so why does one person never get diagnosed with cancer and another person is diagnosed with cancer? Cancer is almost always caused by the same multi-step sequence of events.

First, nasty microbes and parasites get inside of the organs and make their homes there. These microbes generally come from meat that was not adequately cooked, but they can come from other sources.

Second, these microbes intercept glucose which was headed for the cells in the organs.

Third, these microbes excrete (as waste products) mycotoxins, which are highly acid and totally worthless to the cells.

Fourth, because the cells (in the organs) don’t get the food they need (because it has been intercepted), and because they are living in a sea of filth (i.e. mycotoxins), the cells in the organ become weak.

Fifth, organs are made exclusively of cells. In other words, if you took all of the cells out of an organ, there would be no organ. Thus, because the cells in the organ(s) are weak, the organ(s) are weak.

Sixth, because one or more major organs are weak the immune system becomes weak. Actually, the microbes weaken the immune system both directly and indirectly.

Seventh, because the immune system is weak it cannot kill enough cancer cells and the cancer cells grow out of control.”

Billions of Dollars … But No Cure

Sadly, Western Medicine neither knows or divulges the big picture of what causes cancer, nor knows how to properly cure it. Even when allopathic medicine “cures” cancer (remission), it has not fixed the root cause, so it is almost certain to return. There are all sorts of charities, fundraisers, pomp and circumstance, with billions of dollars donated to cancer research, but nothing ever seems to eventuate from it. It’s no wonder, when you consider that some of these ventures like the Susan Komen pink ribbon charity actually lead unsuspecting women into regular mammograms that cause the very cancer they are supposed to be detecting or protecting against!

Some of these charities also ally themselves with Big Pharma companies that make products (like vaccines) with provably carcinogenic ingredients and adjuvants like mercury and formaldehyde! It’s more fakery designed to give the gullible public the impression that someone is trying really hard to “find the cure.” Many people have seen through the entire charade, especially as it becomes known that the American Cancer Society has financial ties to Big Pharma companies and radiology equipment manufacturers, and receives funding from the petrochemical industry, the biotech industry (oops, I repeat myself), the cosmetics industry (oops, I repeat myself again) and the junk food industry (oops, I repeat myself a third time). Yes, they are all full of petrochemicals … Western Medicine is Rockefeller Medicine, right?

Toxic Side Effects of Western Medical Cancer Treatments

Western Medicine has 3 main approaches against cancer, all of which have severe side effects: surgery, radiation and chemotherapy. Surgery involves cutting out the diseased tissue however it clearly takes a toll on the body; besides, there is no way to stop cancer just by cutting it out, for it will just come back. Radiation itself is carcinogenic. According to cancer survivor Suzanne Somers, another side effect of radiation is that your body cannot make HCl (hydrochloric acid) again for rest of your life! This means you will not be able to digest properly unaided; in the best case scenario, you would have to take HCl tablets before every meal for the rest of your life. Entire volumes of books could be written about the side effects of chemotherapy. Indeed, calling it a “therapy” is rather generous, given that it is a selection of chemical drugs derived from mustard gas that was used in World Wars I and II as a toxic killing agent.

Kehr writes in the above-linked article that “regardless of what the cancer microbe is, it has been known since the 1930s that one of the best ways to cure cancer is to kill the microbes which are inside of the cancer cells. In this way the cancer cells will revert into normal cells.” In part 2, we will turn our attention to the natural solutions, remedies and treatments for cancer (with little to no side effects) – and fortunately there are many such natural cancer cures.

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Makia Freeman is the editor of alternative media / independent news siteThe Freedom Articles and senior researcher at ToolsForFreedom.com, writing on many aspects of truth and freedom, from exposing aspects of the worldwide conspiracy to suggesting solutions for how humanity can create a new system of peace and abundance.

For the Lakota, kinship with all creatures of the earth, sky and water was a real and active principle. In the animal and bird world there existed a brotherly feeling that kept the Lakota safe among them. And so close did some of the Lakotas come to their feathered and furred friends that in true brotherhood they spoke a common tongue.

The animals had rights — the right of man’s protection, the right to live, the right to multiply, the right to freedom, and the right to man’s indebtedness — and in recognition of these rights the Lakota never enslaved an animal and spared all life that was not needed for food and clothing. For the animal and bird world there existed a brotherly feeling that kept the Lakota safe among them.

This concept of life and its relations was humanizing and gave to the Lakota an abiding love. It filled his being with the joy and mystery of living; it gave him reverence for all life; it made a place for all things in the scheme of existence with equal importance to all.

From Wakan Tanka, the Great Spirit, there came a great unifying life force that flowed in and through all things — the flowers of the plains, blowing winds, rocks, trees, birds, animals — and was the same force that had been breathed into the first man. Thus all things were kindred, and were brought together by the same Great Mystery.”

It’s a commonly known fact that the act of gardening can reduce stress and improve moods, but recent scientific studies have now shown that a particular microorganism that is found in soil can improve wellbeing and even act as an antidepressant. Mycobacterium vaccae is commonly found in soil, and has been proven to activate the release of brain serotonin, according to reports. The chemical serotonin together with dopamine boost immune systems and keep people happy. Both of these chemicals are neurotransmitters, which act as chemical messengers in the brain. dopamine affects emotions, movements and sensations of pleasure and pain, whilst serotonin regulates mood, social behaviour, libido, sleep, memory, and learning. When a person is gardening, M. vaccae is present on the skin when bare hands are in the soil. This is then either inhaled or enters into the bloodstream through any cuts.

The positive effects of the soil bacteria were discovered by accident by oncologist Dr Mary O’Brien, after she created a serum from the bacteria and gave it to lung cancer patients in an attempt to boost their immune system. Following this, she noticed the additional effects that the bacteria was having on the patients, which included enhanced happiness as well as them suffering less pain. Building on this concept, researchers Dorothy Matthews and Susan Jenks administered M. vaccae to mice before performing behavioural tests. Jenks said, “What our research suggests is that eating, touching and breathing a soil organism may be tied to the development of our immune system and nervous system.” Their tests also showed that the mice were less anxious. Matthews stated, “It is interesting to speculate that creating learning environments in schools that include time in the outdoors where M. vaccae is present may decrease anxiety and improve the ability to learn new tasks.”

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Studies claim that the overall wellbeing of a person’s immune system and psychology is enhanced by frequent exposure to a diverse group of bacteria, fungi, protozoa, and worms during the period of early childhood. The gastro-intestinal ract develops a hundred trillion microbes over a period of time, which is determined by a combination of genetics and the particular bacteria that live in and on living things around an individual. Therefore, scientists have stated that a diverse range of organisms, found in animals, plants, soil, water and air, are all required for the optimal functioning of the immune and nervous systems.

By simply spending time in nature, whether that be looking at plants and trees or physically gardening, the mental, social and physical wellbeing is impacted. Researchers, including Roger S. Ulrich, PhD, have found that viewing nature can help the body to heal. Ulrich found that patients whose rooms overlooked trees recovered better than those who had the view of a brick wall. They also got out of hospital faster, required less pain medication and had fewer complications. Being in nature, and particularly gardening, can be quite a creative activity, and permaculturist Robyn Francis has discovered that the act releases dopamine in the brain when products are harvested from the garden. She claimed, “Researchers hypothesise that this response evolved over nearly 200,000 years of hunter gathering, that when food was found (gathered or hunted) a flush of dopamine released in the reward centre of the brain triggered a state of bliss or mild euphoria. The dopamine release can be triggered by sight (seeing a fruit or berry) and smell as well as by the action of actually plucking the fruit.”

Dr Daphne Miller has also written extensively on soil health and the health of the people who eat from that soil, and explained, “Perhaps the best place for us each to begin is with our own backyard plot or window box. Planting a rainbow of seeds, avoiding garden chemicals, nourishing the soil with plant matter, digging with our hands and eating the bounty – while not guaranteed to replace a pharmaceutical grade antidepressant – is a wonderful chance to hang out with ‘Old Friends’.”